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CANADA - Preying on predators: Anonymous group has noble intentions but risky...
Anonymous Criminals Original Article 06/17/2013 By Jen Gerson The videos started to trickle in this month: the now-familiar Guy Fawkes mask, a computerized female voice, stock video graphics and bland...
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The Zealous Prosecution of New York Gun and Firearm Cases: When an Injury may...
Everyone is scared of guns. After all, some horrific incidents have corroborated why many lawmakers in New York believe the strict firearm laws of the New York Penal Law are necessary. While there is...
View ArticleColonizing Humanity
Samera Esmeir, Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History (Stanford University Press, 2012).Kunal ParkerSamera Esmeir’s ambitious book, Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History, explores the legal...
View ArticleThird, Fourth, Whatever
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">Fascination spread across the blawgosphere as something that almost never happens happened in Henderson, Nevada.<a href=...
View ArticleTN: Good faith exception statute not retroactive -- it's ex post facto
Defendant was indicted for a marijuana grow operation in 2005. The search was not suppress for a warrant time error, but it was reversed on appeal in 2009 because Tennessee finds that not a mere...
View ArticleCA10: Grabbing waistband in high crime area important on reasonable suspicion
High-crime area, change of direction and increased pace, grabbing at waistline, two men splitting paths, defendant’s backpedaling when talked to, flight of his companion. The district court didn’t put...
View ArticleN.D.Okla.: "investigative detention of defendant and the sweep of his home...
Officers had a 911 call that there was a domestic disturbance, and, at the scene, defendant came out of the house to talk with them and was calm and cooperative. Still, they had exigent circumstances...
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Wiretaps, Real Estate and the Police Databases
This post examines a recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in a civil case: Seitz v. City of Elgin, __ F.3d __, 2013 WL 3176502 (2013). Debra Seitz and Greg Welter...
View ArticleD.Nev.: School officials accessing plaintiff's Twitter postings didn't...
School officials accessing plaintiff's Twitter postings didn't violate the First or Fourth Amendments. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in Twitter postings. Roasio v. Clark County School...
View ArticleTexting while judging: Judge texted assistance to prosecutors during trial(s)
The Houston Chronicle today published an update ("Ex-prosecutor admits helping judge accused of sending secret text messages") on an ugly case of alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct out of...
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Kein Täter werden
Im April 2012 nahm ein Präventionsprojekt gegen sexuellen Kindesmissbrauch seine Arbeit an einem Hamburger Standort auf: Als Teil des Netzwerkes „Kein Täter werden“ bietet seitdem das...
View ArticleGovernment to Judge: It Sucks To Be The Defense
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">It's not yet known whether there was a smoking gun in the jury room, but whatever is known, it's not by the United States Attorney's office in the...
View ArticlePolice Departments Lack Money for Training
Budget cuts across the State of Florida have limited local police department's ability to properly train its officers. Money for training partially comes from a law enforcement training trust fund. The...
View ArticleUpdates: Mangum, Academic Freedom
A couple of minor updates.First, Crystal Mangum’s long-delayed murder trial—the false accuser has gone through several attorneys, slowing down the process—is now scheduled, for mid-December. Mangum,...
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Binay bill seeks to ban sex offenders from staying near schools
7-5-2013 Philippines: MANILA, Philippines—A bill that would prohibit sex offenders from entering, loitering or gaining access to schools and residing 300 meters from the premises has been filed......
View ArticleThe Third Amendment and criminal investigation
Ilya Somin at The Volokh Conspiracy has this interesting post, excerpting an article discussing the case: Henderson [Nevada] police arrested a family for refusing to let officers use their homes as...
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Escaped Montana inmate shot and killed by deputy sheriff
7-6-2013 Montana: A convicted sex offender who escaped from a Montana prison was shot and killed on Friday by a deputy sheriff at a shopping center in Billings, police said. Dean Jess, 42, was......
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AUSTRALIA - False abuse claims are the new court weapon, retiring judge says
Justice David Collier Original Article 07/06/2013 By Harriet Alexander Allegations of child sexual abuse are being increasingly invented by mothers to stop fathers from seeing their children, says a...
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Five Montana Indian reservations do not report DUI convictions to the State
Indian reservations enjoy some autonomy from the state in which they are located. They have their own judicial system. However, one of the legal obligations with which they are supposed to comply is in...
View ArticleInjury crash SH8 milepost 52 Elk River
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